AI Engineering Articles, Page 2

Articles, page 2

• Agents May 27, 2026 ·15 min read

  Durable Execution for Agents That Outlive a Web Request

  Persisting checkpoints, replaying deterministically, handling human approval, and surviving crashes without duplicating side effects.

• Evaluation and Security May 18, 2026 ·10 min read

  Build an LLM Evaluation Harness That Can Block a Release

  From task contracts and test slices to calibrated judges, regression budgets, and production feedback loops.

• Evaluation and Security May 9, 2026 ·11 min read

  Hallucination Controls Belong in the System, Not One Prompt

  A layered design for constraining claims, grounding evidence, verifying outputs, and abstaining when the system does not know.

• Evaluation and Security Apr 30, 2026 ·10 min read

  Guardrails as Policy Enforcement, Not Keyword Blocking

  Building layered input, action, and output controls that remain testable when language and threats change.

• Evaluation and Security Apr 21, 2026 ·10 min read

  Threat Modeling an AI Application End to End

  Assets, trust boundaries, model-specific attacks, tool abuse, data leakage, and concrete mitigations for deployed AI systems.

• Evaluation and Security Apr 12, 2026 ·14 min read

  Prompt Injection Defense in Depth

  Why delimiters are not a sandbox, how indirect injection reaches agents, and which architectural controls actually reduce impact.

• Retrieval Apr 3, 2026 ·10 min read

  Embedding Systems: Models, Indexes, and Semantic Drift

  Selecting representations, constructing embedding inputs, migrating indexes, and detecting when semantic neighborhoods stop serving the product.

• Inference Systems Mar 25, 2026 ·10 min read

  Fine-Tuning with LoRA in Production

  When fine-tuning is justified, how low-rank adapters work, and what it takes to evaluate, serve, and update them safely.

• Multimodal and Edge Mar 16, 2026 ·10 min read

  Multimodal AI Pipelines for Images, Audio, and Documents

  Engineering preprocessing, temporal and spatial grounding, context budgets, validation, and storage around multimodal models.

• Inference Systems Mar 7, 2026 ·10 min read

  LLM Cost Engineering: From Token Prices to Unit Economics

  Modeling full request cost, eliminating waste, forecasting margins, and optimizing without disguising quality regressions.

• Product Architecture Feb 26, 2026 ·10 min read

  Observability for LLM and Agent Systems

  Tracing model calls, retrieval, tools, state transitions, quality signals, and cost without turning telemetry into a privacy liability.

• Product Architecture Feb 17, 2026 ·10 min read

  Model Routing, Cascades, and Fallbacks

  How to choose models per request using task risk, calibrated confidence, operational health, and total expected cost.